Change Quotes - Page 51

On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.

[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.

Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.

When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.

Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.